Obama hasn't let me down

[Pam]

He has already started out doing some of the things he said he would do which is why I didn't vote for him. This would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous. "Getting negative energy out on paper." Be real people!!

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6719704&page=1

[Sirrahsim]

Art Therapy??? That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard I even have to pull out the for that one. Though you are right Pam. It is not a laughing matter. MUCH too dangerous...
Ridiculous.

[moosmom]

I wasn't exactly happy with the Guantanemo Bay closure. It's like saying, "Okay, you're free, now don't hurt us."

It's early yet. I hope most of the detainees go back to their native countries and stop sponging off the US.

Oh, and to set the record straight, I'm all for any kind of treatment if it means getting confessions. I know it sounds crude and you're probably right. But they sure as hell didn't think about OUR feelings when they flew planes into buildings killing hundreds of people.

I'm off my soapbox now.

[caseysmom]

Guantanamo bay will go down in history as a blight on the U.S. imo, we are treating prisoners no better than why we supposedly went to Iraq(human rights). Bush finally had to concede and give the prisoners rights under the geneva convention and finally release children detained.

I agree Donna the dangerous criminals don't need to be put out on the street or released but changes should occur.

This art therapy is done in Saudi Arabia..what does that have to do with Obama?

[Pam]

This art therapy is done in Saudi Arabia..what does that have to do with Obama?

I should have been more clear in my original post I guess. My problem is with closing GB when there is no secure plan in place to protect this country from these people who will kill us if they get half a chance. This article just points up how absurd the thought that they can be rehabilitated at all, let alone by putting their angry thoughts down on paper! This might work for kids in pre-school but honestly it blows my mind that anyone would even consider such a thing.

Yes, Caseysmom, GB may go down as a blight in history as far as human rights go. Time will tell. Don't even get me started on that, though, as unborn INNOCENT humans have no rights in this country. That disturbs me oh so much more!

[caseysmom]

Well I will concede that I am very surprised that Saudi Arabia is doing this, I thought they were an eye for an eye kinda place

[lizbud]

This story leaves out a interesting fact. Ali- al-Shihri was released by
the Bush admin in 2007. He never should have been detained in the first
place.

[blue]

This story leaves out a interesting fact. Ali- al-Shihri was released by
the Bush admin in 2007. He never should have been detained in the first
place.

Your going to have to back that up, this is the first new story searching for Ali al-Shihri.

A FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee has emerged as the deputy leader of al-Qa'ida's Yemeni branch, highlighting the problems associated with closing the detention centre within a year.

Reports yesterday said the militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, was suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the US embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with al-Qa'ida in Yemen.

Full text found here, link.

[slick]

The men also get religious re-education and are promised a new home and car if they behave.

Um....excuse me but could someone please strap this bomb on my back??? I need a new car!

[moosmom]

LMAO, Slick!!!

Well strap a bomb on me and call me stupid!!!

[lizbud]

Your going to have to back that up, this is the first new story searching for Ali al-Shihri.



Full text found here, link.

Read on...............

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28800516/

More interesting reading material.........

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/...ees/index.html

[momoffuzzyfaces]

It's not like he's going to open the door and let them go free!!! They will most likely be put here in the US. Say what you want, I wouldn't want to be any one of them in a US prison where some of our hard core criminals can get their hands on them.

Mercy! A president who is actually trying to keep his campaign promises!!! Lord, help us all!!!

[blue]

Read on...............

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28800516/

More interesting reading material.........

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/...ees/index.html

Nothing there that said he shouldnt have been detained in the first place. In fact al-Shihri admits he was a terrorist.

By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for

So how can you say

He never should have been detained in the first
place.

[RICHARD]

Um....excuse me but could someone please strap this bomb on my back??? I need a new car!

YOU are so DUMB!


That would give you a 'dowager's hump', Women Homicide Bombers strap the bombs in the front, so they look preggers!

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LOL, with the goofiness of some of the grants given to 'art' in this country....

Or

"Can I have PEACH color crayon? I need to color in blown up bodies of infidels!"

Or

I used to send out martyrs for living. Now I have Art Exhibits in SoHo, San Francisco and West Lost Angeles !

Rahshad Al-Ka Boom.


(thanks Dennis Miller!)

[Kirsten]

Well, as far as I understood it, other countries will be asked to take some of the detainees, and I heard earlier today that the French gouvernment has already worked out a paper. And I know that there's a discussion among the German political parties right now whether they will agree to take some of the detainees, or not. I do not think that all these people are meant to be set free, they will just go to other prisons.

Besides, George W. Bush was considering the closing of Guantanamo also: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194634,00.html

Kirsten